Feeds
Canadian investor Arthur Wong is buying condos in Las Vegas and Phoenix like a shopper at Costco: In bulk, with slashed prices.
When senior citizens finally surrender the car keys, they don't have to lose their independence.
A million dollars doesn't buy you what it once did. In most U.S. neighborhoods, it now gets you a lot more.
As days tick off the calendar, the life span of the much-ballyhooed tax credit for first-time homebuyers is drawing to an end — unless Congress decides to extend it.
The number of U.S. households threatened with losing their homes held steady last month, a sign that lenders' efforts to help distressed borrowers may be having a gradual impact.
The American dream of homeownership is still attainable. Buyers just have to deal with a new set of realities.
They're lurking, holding bags of cash and eyeing distressed condo markets.
Homeowners worried about missing mortgage payments and entering foreclosure may have another option: a loan modification.
The number of U.S. households faced with losing their homes to foreclosure jumped 32 percent in April compared with the same month last year, with Nevada, Florida and California showing the highest rates, according to data released Wednesday.
Every week, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac releases average rates on four types of home loans, including 30-year fixed rate mortgages — the most popular type of loan for home buyers.
Catering to baby boomers and seniors who've lost savings during the recession, retirement-housing designers and developers are shifting to smaller homes that are more energy efficient and maximize space.
Sales of existing homes fell 16 percent in the South in February, as potential buyers remained cautious amid difficult economic conditions and waited for the stimulus package to take effect, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.
Money is already tight at The Wilshire Condominium, and new lending rules threaten to make life even more difficult for it and other condos around the country.
From a one-time $250 payment to a 50 percent increase in the limits for reverse mortgages, there are some housing-related items in President Barack Obama's stimulus plan that potentially can help seniors maneuver through difficult economic times.
Home sales in the South skidded 16.5 percent in January compared to the previous year, as pessimism about the economy grew and buyers waited to see how the new Obama administration would help revive the housing market, the National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday.
In Judge A. Jay Cristol's bankruptcy court, the bench shakes and a deep thud reverberates throughout the room as he stamps one of many documents that mark the steady progress of a case.
Picture a neighborhood where doors can be left unlocked, where 20 families gather to eat in a common home twice a week, where solar panels help heat homes, where everyone relies on each other and determines the fate of the community together.
Existing home sales in Southern states fell nearly 7 percent in December compared to the same month last year, while the median sales price slid 8 percent to $158,600, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday.
The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking.
Existing home sales in Southern states sank nearly 24 percent in November compared to the same month last year, while the median sales price fell nearly 11 percent to $154,500, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
Robert Ecker was bored with retirement, so he went back to work as a housing appraiser in Stockton, Calif. He trained four other appraisers during the real estate boom — all of them are now out of the business.
Attention retirees, smaller cities throughout the South want you.
Mortgage rates fell for the second day in a row Wednesday, and could be heading toward levels home buyers and owners haven't seen this year.
Existing home sales in Southern states fell more than 10 percent in October compared to the same month a year ago, while the median sales price dropped nearly 6 percent to $161,000, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday.
The number of homeowners caught in the wave of foreclosures in October grew 25 percent nationally over the same month in 2007, data released Thursday showed.
Log In | Register
